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Citadel sisters: a first times two – African American women students at The Citadel military college in Charleston, SC

CHARLESTON, S.C. Unlike the late Charles D. Foster, who thirty-one years ago bore the burden of integrating The Citadel military college alone, the first two African American females to attend the school will have something he didn’t have – each other.

July 11, 2007

Leadership & Policy

You say tomato, I say tomate – bilingual controversy at City University of New York’s Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College in Bronx, NY

BRONX, NY A controversy that erupted this spring over bilingual education at Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College, which is part of the City University of New York (CUNY), has languished in the courts and turned into a war of words in the media.

July 11, 2007

Study should help defense of funding for remedial higher education – federal financial aid for remedial coursework

A new congressionally mandated study may blunt the efforts of critics who want to end federal financial aid to students in remedial education.

July 11, 2007

The relevance of race

The following was excepted from the convocation address titled “What Kind of Freedom” given by Duke University President Nannerl O. Keohane on Aug. 28.

July 11, 2007

Anything We Love Can Be Saved. – book reviews

Alice Walker has been accused of writing well, and of writing badly. In the case of her most famous work, The Color Purple (1982), both accusations overlapped dramatically, each bringing its own measure of adoration and libel. Her admirers and detractors emerged from all sectors of popular, public, and academic life yielding a range of responses — from ostensible assessments of her craft, to open judgement of her political affiliations, to speculative accusations of ulterior (market-driven) motives. A similar response greeted the novel Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)

July 11, 2007

A measurement of what?; although “reliably constant,” experts say standardized test scores are often misunderstood and misused – related articles on college tests – Cover Story

Earlier this year at a gathering with members of the press, the presidents of a handful of top research universities were discussing their commitment to diversity. As if with one voice they said standardized test scores play only a small part in their admissions process. Their institutions, they pronounced, are virtually disinterested in SAT and ACT scores.

July 11, 2007

Spurring interaction: Cornell is counting on outreach programs to spur cross-racial and cross-ethnic interaction – Cornell University

Cornell University officials are hoping that student residential-housing outreach programs being launched this school year will help the upstate New York institution avoid the problems it experienced last spring when a conservative student publication offended many university students with an Ebonics parody.

July 11, 2007

Slow motion penalty – lawsuit by National Women’s Law Center – related article on Title IX law – Despite Sluggish Progress, Four HBCUs Cited in Title IX Complaint

It is ironic that four historically Black colleges and universities are among the twenty-five institutions named in a Title IX complaint filed by the National Women’s Law Center. Ironic, because the prime mission of HBCUs is to provide educational opportunities to those who may not otherwise get the chance to attend college. The complaint was filed in June just weeks before the celebration of Title IX’s twenty-fifth anniversary.

July 11, 2007

Bar association grants UDC law school reprieve; accreditation is withheld, but some call decision “positive.” – American Bar Association; University of the District of Columbia School of Law

The troubled University of the District of Columbia (UDC) School of Law failed to win provisional accreditation from the American Bar Association (ABA) during its summer meeting held earlier this month in San Francisco. UDC Law School officials, however, will be given another chance to make their case for accreditation when the ABA reconvenes in January 1998.

July 11, 2007

Hope scholarships: a closer look

In August, President Clinton signed the massive new balanced budget agreement with $40 billion in education tax credits. Now the task its to help colleges, students and parents figure out their roles in the complex package.

July 11, 2007

Why we should worry about the numbers – The Last Word – Column

An elderly African American woman once said to me, “Son, we must always worry about our freedom. If we don’t, we will look up and our freedom will be gone.” Reflecting on the current status of African Americans in higher education, her words remain quite appropriate.

July 11, 2007

From combat to campus: GI Bill gave a generation of African Americans an opportunity to pursue the American dream – Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 – Special Report: The Integrated Military – 50 Years – Cover Story

The early champions of the GI Bill probably never envisioned the far-reaching impact the landmark legislation would have on American society.

July 11, 2007

Dialing for dollars: against heavy competition, HBCUs need savvy, expertise to win Department of Defense funding – historically Black colleges and universities – includes related article on the increasing US Air Force funding to HBCUs

Imagine a high-stakes game worth $1.4 billion a year with thousands of players vying for the money. That’s the picture historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) face each year as they try to access funds from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD).

July 11, 2007

Doing what had to be done. The integrated military seen as model for society – Special Report: The Integrated Military – 50 Years

In the almost fifty years since President Harry S. Truman ordered the desegregation of the military, the United States armed forces have fostered equal opportunity on a scale that few other institutions have matched.

July 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Central State hires new president, fires one-sixth of faculty – Central State University’s John W. Garland

WILBERFORCE, Ohio Fighting to overcome a political and financial crisis that nearly forced the school to close this summer, Central State University has hired a new president and terminated nineteen faculty members.

July 11, 2007

House, Senate differ on HBCU funding – historically Black colleges and universities – Washington Update

The House of Representatives and the Senate are at odds over how to fund historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) next year.

July 11, 2007

Affirmative discrimination – nonadmission of African American students to the University of California in San Diego medical school – Speaking of Education – Column

One hundred and ninety-six African American students applied for medical school admission at the University of California at San Diego. Not a single one was admitted. At Boalt Hall, the University of California Law School at the Berkeley campus, only fourteen students were admitted, and just one – entering after deferring admission from last year – will attend.

July 11, 2007

The African-American Soldier: From Crispus Attucks to Colin Powell. – book reviews

Precious few books address or do justice to the role of African Americans in the evolution and development of the most powerful democracy in history, the United States of America. Even less attention has been paid by historians to the role and contributions of African American soldiers, sailors and airmen in providing for the security of that democracy.

July 11, 2007